Multi-Year Impacts of Ecotourism on Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Visitation at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia.
In-water viewing of sharks by tourists has become a popular and lucrative industry.There is some concern that interactions with tourists with ecotourism operations invertatop squeeze bottle might harm sharks through disruption of behaviours.Here, we analysed five years of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounter data by an ecotourism industry at Nin